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SCHOOL AND COLLEGE.

The three niecss of the late Helen Hunt
Jackson are graduates of Vassar COLLEGE.
Harvard's oldest living graduate is William
R. Sever, Of Plymouth, Mass, who was 9G
years old June 6.
Edward Everett Hale told the students Of
Cornell that the best opportunity of studying
human nature was TO be had by entering the
profession of the schoolmaster.
Professor Palmer, Of Harvard, finds that
one-thifd of the students there spend under
$500 a year, one-half under $1,000 and three
fourths under 81 200.
I. w. T. Curtis, of New Haven, is we'll
pleased with the career Of his sons at Yale.
They are twins and members of the present
graduating class. One of them stands first in
the class and the other third.
During the past year the students of Vassar
college consumed 100, 600 buckwleat cakes,
l41 gallons of oysters. 5000 pounds of sugar,
1000 pounds of turkey and Of, 1000 quarts of
milk, together with unlimited quantities of
other eatables too numerous to mention.
home for women teachers has been opened
in Dresden, where they can stay during holt
days or while looking for new situations. The
home is non-sectarian, and foreigners also are
admitted. As newspapers and directories can
be obtained there, it serves as a registry Office
also.
Miss Eleanor A. Norcross, of the class of
", has made a valuable gift of oil paintings
to Wheaton seminary, Norton, for its alumne
gallery, They are copies made by herself,
during her residence abroad, from the works
of Rembrandt, Botticelli, Velasquez and
others of the old masters.
DIR. Lucy M. Hall, physician of vassar. has
kept a list of the number of days each girl
has been absent from illness during the year.
and compared it with a similar record kept
of the young men at Amherst college. She
finds that the girls are not absent from illness
nearly SO much as the young men.
One title of Harvard college to its fame is
In the fact.os its having established and for
nearly fosty years maintained the first and
only printing office in the American colonies.
This early press was Aset upt' in President
Dunster's house and wes arun'' more or less
under the presidents supervision. From this
Harvard college press was issued in l646 the
famous Bay Psalm Book and in 1868 the still
more famous Eliot's Indian Bible.
Miss Dorothea Klumpke, of San Francisco.
who has been studying mathematics in Paris
for several years, applied last autumn to the
~ sr'tAbbSiAJ ub IA IdIiS ulllf6I-
sity for admission into his class. He said
That he had never before had a female appli-
can't, but that he could see no reason why
she should not be one of his pupils. Four
Frenchrnen and one plucky American girl
now form the special class in higher mathe-
matics as applied to astronomy.
I'm filed with the learning Of ages,
l can translate Homer at sight.
i scan the meter heroic,
Like u gentleman erudite.
extract the rootsf a number &y
Without aneesthetics or pain; y
/ know the great ones of story, q
From Adam way down to Kissane. g.
can tell the date of Rameses, r.
And ! know when Antony died
1 think I might write in Latin, ;
And mayhap in Greek if 1 tried.
and if the college professors
Consider this far from enough.
I've got a great store of knowledge
Preserved on the back of my cuff.
Detroit Free Press.